E‐assessment offers many opportunities to broaden the range of tools at the assessor's disposal and thereby improve the overall accessibility of the assessment experience. In 2006, TechDis commissioned a report, produced by Edexcel, on the state of guidance on accessibility at the various stages of the assessment process – question design, construction of delivery software and so on. The findings from this report are briefly presented herein, and discussion is invited from all relevant stakeholders to ascertain priority areas for the development of guidance for the sector.
The traveler was asked by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC/RES) to travel with Dr. Peter M. Williams, NRC MHTGR Project Manager, to assist in obtaining information from researchers and licensing authorities in the United Kingdom and Western Europe relevant to the NRC's ongoing evaluation of the DOE Modular HTGR (MHTGR) research program plan and licensability concerns. The NRC- sponsored ORNL program for HTGR safety reviews, of which the traveler is manager, has made significant use of foreign resources in conducting safety research, developing independent safety analysis capabilities, and assisting NRC in preparation of safety analysis reports. The additional information derived on this trip from detailed discussions with researchers and licensing authorities, laboratory and reactor site tours, and literature received will be very valuable in carrying out the NRC program. Specific information and insights were obtained in the areas of primary system component performance, reactor operations, control and safety system design and performance, fuel performance and fission product transport, safety analysis, heat transfer and fluid flow, reactor physics, advanced designs, and licensing criteria and methods. 28 refs.
This article provides an overview of free and open source software (FOSS) and the variety of solutions that libraries are implementing in order to better serve their patrons and more efficiently manage their collections. In addition, two case studies from academic libraries in Zimbabwe demonstrate how librarians implemented FOSS solutions that allowed these libraries to meet patronsâ needs and increased library usage.
This paper is aimed both at teaching staff directly involved in creating assessments and those working with either the front end or back end of computer-assisted assessment software packages. It sets out the rationale for making computer-assisted assessments more inclusive and provides a 25-point checklist as a ‘getting started’ guide towards achieving this.
Questionnaires were distributed to a selection of 75 primary schools and 22 secondary schools in New South Wales. A sample was chosen to proportionally represent state government and Catholic schools, metropolitan and rural schools and education regions in both of these education sectors. Teachers were asked to respond to a variety of background questions, to specific questions on road safety teaching practices and on their attitudes to teaching road safety education. Many of the issues raised can be used in future implementation and evaluation of road safety education programs and support materials in schools.
Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) is a subset of ITS which involves communicating and sharing information between ITS-stations. These ITS-stations comprise personal devices, vehicles, the roadside infrastructure and the back-office. The objective of C-ITS is `... to give advice or facilitate actions to improving safety, sustainability, efficiency and comfort beyond the scope of stand-alone systems'. C-ITS is also known as `connected vehicles' and require a substantial value chain to deliver the services and include vehicle manufacturers, in-vehicle product developers, electronics companies, app developers and mobile network operators.
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